Publications
As part of our work on the automated recording of wild animals, we have published various articles in scientific journals.
Networked digital environmental monitoring
Zeuss, D., Bald, L., Gottwald, J., Becker, M,, Bellafkir, H,, Bendix, J,, Bengel, P., Beumer, L. T., Brandl, R., Brändle, M,, Dahlke, S., Farwig, N., Freisleben, B., Friess, N., Heidrich, L., Heuer, S., Höchst, J., Holzmann, H., Lampe, P., Leberecht, M., Lindner, K., Masello, J. F., Möglich, J. M., Mühling, M., Müller, T., Noskov, A., Opgenoorth, L., Peter, C., Quillfeldt, P., Rösner, S., Royauté, R., Runge, C. M., Schabo, D., Schneider, D., Seeger, B., Shayle, E., Steinmetz, R., Tafo, P., Vogelbacher, M., Wöllauer, S., Younis, S., Zobel, J. & Nauss, T. (2024). Nature 4.0: A Networked Sensor System for Integrated Biodiversity Monitoring. Global Change Biology, 30(1), e17056.
Available at (DOI): 10.1111/gcb.17056
Automated VHF radio tracking
Gottwald, J., Zeidler, R., Friess, N., Ludwig, M., Reudenbach, C., & Nauss, T. (2019). Introduction of an automatic and open‐source radio‐tracking system for small animals. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(12), 2163-2172.
Available at (DOI): 10.1111/2041-210X.13294
Höchst, J., Gottwald, J., Lampe, P., Zobel, J., Nauss, T., Steinmetz, R., & Freisleben, B. (2021). tRackIT OS: Open-source Software for Reliable VHF Wildlife Tracking. In GI-Jahrestagung (pp. 425-442).
Available at (DOI): 10.18420/informatik2021-035
Gottwald, J., Royauté, R., Becker, M., Geitz, T., Höchst, J., Lampe, P., … & Nauss, T. (2023). Classifying the activity states of small vertebrates using automated VHF telemetry. Methods in ecology and evolution, 14(1), 252-264.
Available at (DOI): 10.1111/2041-210X.14037
Salewski, V., Cimiotti, D., Lampe, P., Höchst, J., & Gottwald, J. (2023). Ein automatisiertes System zur Erfassung der Signale von Radiosendern und seine Anwendung im Rahmen einer Telemetriestudie an Austernfischerküken. In Vogelwarte: Zeitschrift für Vogelkunde, 61 (2), 131–146.
Networked digital environmental monitoring
Gottwald, J., Lampe, P., Höchst, J., Friess, N., Maier, J., Leister, L., … & Nauss, T. (2021). BatRack: An open‐source multi‐sensor device for wildlife research. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 12(10), 1867-1874.
Available at (DOI): 10.1111/2041-210X.13672
Bellafkir, H., Vogelbacher, M., Gottwald, J., Mühling, M., Korfhage, N., Lampe, P., … & Freisleben, B. (2022). Bat Echolocation Call Detection and Species Recognition by Transformers with Self-attention. In International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Pattern Recognition (pp. 189-203). Springer, Cham.
Available at (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-031-08277-1_16
Höchst, J., Bellafkir, H., Lampe, P., Vogelbacher, M., Mühling, M., Schneider, D., … & Freisleben, B. (2022). Bird@Edge: Bird Species Recognition at the Edge. In International Conference on Networked Systems (NETYS). Springer, Cham.
Available at (DOI): 10.1007/978-3-031-17436-0_6 | Talk Recording | NVIDIA Jetson Project of the Month
Möglich, J. M., Lampe, P., Fickus, M., Gottwald, J., Nauss, T., Brandl, R., … & Heidrich, L. (2022). Automated non-lethal moth traps can be used for robust estimates of moth abundance. bioRxiv.
Available at (DOI): 10.1101/2022.06.13.495870
Species Distribution Modeling
Bald, L., Gottwald, J., & Zeuss, D. (2023). spatialMaxent: Adapting species distribution modeling to spatial data. Ecology and Evolution, 13(10), e10635.
Available at (DOI): 10.1002/ece3.10635
Gottwald, J., Appelhans, T., Adorf, F., Hillen, J., & Nauss, T. (2017). High-resolution MaxEnt modelling of habitat suitability for maternity colonies of the barbastelle bat Barbastella barbastellus (Schreber, 1774) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Acta Chiropterologica, 19(2), 389-398.
Available at (DOI): 10.3161/15081109ACC2017.19.2.015